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by blub 6d ago
These kinds of sanitized corporate, feel-good articles are anything but interesting. A disgruntled former Azure employee posting what a clusterfuck their SW, including their Rust effort is? That’s both rare and interesting.
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by blub 14d ago
“Because incremental improvements don't provide enough value. A stable C++ codebase is best left untouched.” That was most of your original comment and it remains wrong. Now you’re talking about specific memory-safety-related features,
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by blub 14d ago
Replace opt with its equivalent “choose” and it becomes choose-(tobe-)in and choose-(tobe-)out.
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by blub 28d ago
The set-up and your reply feel like a Rust sketch. Not touching a codebase only applies to legacy software which is feature complete. Any actively developed software will benefit from incremental improvements. Quality C++ projects continuou
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by blub 28d ago
Don’t believe everything you read. Any communication from them is a PR exercise. On the other hand, I read an interesting substack blog from an ex-Azure employee the other day: the Russinovich-dictated Rust rewrite was allegedly vaporware f
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by blub 1mo ago
For chests of drawers and bookcases they have one configurable wood product. All the storage solutions for the living room are tiny and almost all of them are made of unstained pine. For wardrobes they have two products, one of which is o
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by blub 1mo ago
It’s useful for DIY, but definitely not great. One has to carefully double-check everything; there’s no unit-tests to save your butt. It can help out with understanding tools, workflows, materials, etc but doesn’t actually understands what
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by blub 1mo ago
Names and links or they don’t exist :) Even their absolute high-end stuff is at best particle board with veneer. And you can bet the back will still be that thin 3mm fiberboard, no matter how high-end they look. Unfortunately, top models no
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by blub 1mo ago
In my experience, those that can’t understand design in the small (code level) don’t understand it in the large (sw or systems architecture) either. Doing the right thing for the customer is independent from good design and good code. It’s
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by blub 1mo ago
I don’t think anybody except those working with e.g. DO-178B or ISO26262 does BDUF. Iterative processes are state of the art. The RUP iterative lifecycle illustrates this nicely, with a big chunk of design in inception (first project phase)
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by blub 1mo ago
No part of your list was just a detail, but all parts of the list consist of essential properties and details. As I said, many of those details will fall into place when one starts implementing the core architecture. It also matters a lot w
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by blub 1mo ago
Getting everyone to understand the problems, working together, etc, etc are issues that are inherent to organisations. They’re orthogonal to AI and to the actual hard technical skills needed to execute on a specific strategy. And if the tec
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by blub 1mo ago
The software world has an abundance of mediocre coders that just happen to be good at writing e-mails, meetings, architecture (but not really), powerpoints, navigating customer requirements and product design. It’s in their interest to down
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by blub 1mo ago
No they can’t do everything before writing a line of code. The design and requirements feed into the code and vice-versa over and over through the lifecycle of a piece of software. Some architecture work and design will be done beforehand,
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by blub 2mo ago
Rustafarians do seem to be worried by Fil-C and for good reason. One of the top two issues with Rust is its cumbersome and overbearing syntax and anything which sidesteps that is automatically attractive to anyone which is worried about mem
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by blub 3mo ago
It’s trivial to publish these so that they’re both easily available and easy to understand. I’m guessing that’s not the case for the CDC, since you didn’t post any link or guideline. A nice example was the EUCDC guidance on AstraZeneca’s va
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by blub 3mo ago
The Covid vaccine was not recommended in Germany and other EU countries for children. The risk of the vaccine was higher than the benefit for them. It think the guidance was more nuanced for teens, but for kids it was very clear. The vaxm
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by blub 3mo ago
Myocarditis-maxxies will likely never take off as an insult, but vaxmaxxer just might :) Shortness, pronunciation and simplicity all play a role. Anyway, that statement is actually useless. The moment it became clear that some vaccine incre
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by blub 3mo ago
The myocarditis as caused by e.g. Moderna was affecting teen males and you posted a link to a blog which linked to a study about 70 year old US veterans.
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by blub 3mo ago
Yes, that was what I was talking about. It seems that bounds checking and some other checks are becoming more palatable. Perhaps C++ will start using them en masse and address the biggest memory-safety gaps :)
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by blub 3mo ago
_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS amd many similar flags and options exist for those that want it. It is disappointing that some new features are default-unsafe but it is the C++ philosophy.
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by blub 3mo ago
These Rust discussions typically contain grains of truth wrapped into exaggerations while downplaying or ignoring the two big issues of Rust, which are complexity and out of control dependency trees. For the first issue of complexity, the r
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by blub 3mo ago
There’s a few things happening here. First of all, Rust is default safe. In C++ developers always trade performance for safety, in Rust they just swallow the penalty (which is often still performant enough). C++ code will often not be as me
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by blub 4mo ago
And yet with all that experience you’ve still managed to come up with a conclusion which describes the exact opposite way humanity evolved and currently lives. Good luck with your revolution. :)
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by blub 4mo ago
Yours is a good book (got both editions myself), but sadly language learning books will be hit the hardest by AI. Partly it’s what you said regarding copyright washing, but the other big reason is that people will code less; I am writing li
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by blub 4mo ago
In a student or IT worker bubble, countries are very similar. When one steps out, they’re going to get a rude awakening. Culture shock is a real phenomenon.
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by blub 4mo ago
Even if that were the case, working in a team is very different from working solo.
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by blub 5mo ago
One of the authors commented below that the “teams” were actually persons and the Rust person was an intern. This is even less serious than the typical pattern of grabbing random students for experiments and then drawing conclusions about t
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by blub 5mo ago
Germany has the Schufa. Should be trivial to narrow down to a specific group based on name only.
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by blub 5mo ago
All of these didn’t prevent Go from competing with Rust and I’m guessing that Fil-C will be the better choice in some cases. Rust has managed to establish itself as a player, but it’s only the best choice for a limited amount of projects, l

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